What we do

Generation / Sympathy / Consensus... Music listening to share “Instruments”

  • Organization : KIM Yohan
  • Section : Artistic and creative activity in Tokyo
  • Type of Grant Program : Single Individual
  • Art Forms : Music

Outline

This project deviates from the influence of 19th century German culture, which made musical work “object of contemplation (meditation),” and emphasizes all communication involved in the realization of a work of music, viewing a musical work as a “place of sharing” in which a place where all possible forms of generation, empathy, exchange, and agreement can take place between different people.
The act of listening is performed not through “creative imagination” but through “instruments = instrumentalized bodies”. The project also attempts to communicate among Human, Instruments, and Sounds that occur in the space of a musical work.
The program includes Yohan Kim’s “a pianistic model: material turn” (2022) and “an ambient music in room: between listen to and listen to with” (2023), and Tomomi Adachi’s Lecture performance “What is collective instrument,” or “Sympathy/Synchronicity/Synthesizer” (2023). The performers are Tomomi Adachi, Satoko Inoue(Piano), Yohan Kim, and Kyoko Kurihara(Flute).

Profile

KIM Yohan
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Kim moved to Japan in 2011 with the intention of becoming a composer. His first solo exhibition, “Kim Yohan Composer Solo exhibition: Listening to Ambiguity/Complexity/Accident…” was supported by the Arts Council Tokyo Startup Grant. The exhibition was well received by Magazine “Mirairan”. In recent years, he has premiered new works in Seoul, South Korea; Berlin and Cologne, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Borås, Sweden.

Contact

KIM Yohan
+81-(0)90-8344-3619
nosusdecipio.sound@gmail.com

Venues

Tokyo Concerts Lab, Shinjuku City, Tokyo